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Norway and up the Baltic. It returns to England as early 

 as August, but the same author remarks that " the bulk of 

 the old birds come in October and November, by which time 

 the majority have assumed the winter garb." It is less 

 common in Ireland than in England. "Leaving the 

 Continent of Europe and referring now to its African distri- 

 bution, I find that, according to Col. Irly, Favie states that 

 it is seen about Tangier from December until March, and 

 Mr. T. Drake likewise records it from Morocco. It has 

 been noticed in Algeria, and in Egypt it is distributed 

 throughout the Delta and north coast in winter ; and Von 

 Heughlin says it is found along the coast of the Red Sea and 

 in Kordofan where he observed it as late as April. It extends 

 down both sides of the Continent to the Cape of Good Hope, 

 and spreads eastward to Madagascar and the Seychelles, 

 from both of which regions Mr. E, Newton records it. 

 Captain Sperling noticed it as being common in Zanzibar ; 



and in Natal Mr. Ayres procured it In Damara 



Land Mr. Anderson obtained it in winter. Further north 

 it has been obtained in Gaboon, as also on the Gold Coast 

 and in Senegambia." 



In America the Grey Plover ranges in summer from 

 Greenland, where it breeds, along the shores of the Arctic 

 Ocean to Alaska. Its autumn migration takes place down 

 the east coast to the West Indies, where it has been met with 

 in Cuba, Trinidad, Jamaica, and the Bahamas. In Central 

 America it is recorded from Guatemala, to and from which 

 region it probably passes, and where it is found in spring and 

 autumn. 



25. Charadrius fulvus. 

 (Eastern Golden Plover). 



Charadrius fulvus, Gmelin, Svs, Nat. i., p. 687, (1785) ; Legge, B. 



of Ceylon, p. 934, (1880) ; Ramsay, List Austr. B., p. 19, (1888). 

 Charadrius xajithocheilus, Gould, B. of Austr., Vol. vi., pi. 13, 



(1848). 

 Charadrius orientalis, (Temm), Gould, Handb. of B. of Austr. ii., 



p. 225, (1865). 



The Eastern or Asiatic Golden Plover is a bird of wide 

 Asiatic and Polynesian range, and is a remarkable instance 

 of a North-Asian breeder which sporadically nests in the 

 South Pacific. Speaking generally, the breeding habitat of 

 this species extends from about the valley of the Yenesei River 



